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Anaerobic Digestion of Blackwater and Kitchen Refuse
Citation Link: https://doi.org/10.15480/882.478
Other Titles
Anaerobbehandlung von Schwarzwasser und Bioabfällen
Publikationstyp
Doctoral Thesis
Date Issued
2009
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Advisor
Title Granting Institution
Technische Universität Hamburg
Place of Title Granting Institution
Hamburg
Examination Date
2008-01-09
TORE-DOI
Number in series
66
The main objective of this thesis was to assess the anaerobic treatment of blackwater (toilet wastewater) from vacuum toilets without and with kitchen refuse and its potential for resources management sanitation concepts. In a bench scale continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR), the performance of mesophilic anaerobic digestion of blackwater without and with kitchen refuse was investigated at varying conditions for hydraulic retention time (HRT), ammonia concentration and pre-treatment. At HRT of 20 days, more than 60 % of the input COD was converted to biogas which represents 87 % of the maximum biodegradable COD. At these conditions, the biogas contained 75 % methane and the specific rate was 14 l CH4/cap/d. The digestion runs uninhibited despite high ammonia concentration of 1,111 mg NH4/l. When increasing ammonia artificially about two times, the inhibition by free ammonia starts at concentration of 300 mg NH3/l. Designing of the CSTR based on hydraulic criteria leads to a high unused potential of organic load. When adding kitchen refuse, the reactor can be operated at 15 days HRT and a maximum load of 5 kg COD/(m3 reaktor·d) in an uninhibited state. It results to an increase of methane production of 10 times compared to blackwater digestion. If the HRT decreases or the COD load increase, the reactor runs at an inhibited steady state at lower methane production until the process breaks down.
The mesophilic anaerobic digestion process has a relevant hygienization performance of 2 log reduction for the pathogen indicator E.coli. Additionally 2 log reduction can be reached in case of post-storage of 40 days at ambient temperature. Pre-pasteurization and Pre-acidification were studied, but no treatment is able to meet safely the standard of 1.000 CFU/g TR set by WHO (2006) and US EPA (Anonymous 1993). The Anaerobic Digestion Model No. 1 (ADM1) by IWA was implemented with the software Aquasim. The model was calibrated based on the experimental results. The key parameter were the disintegration and hydrolysis constant kdis and the inhibition constants for free ammonia and pH. The calibrated model was applied for the simulation of process limits and of a technical scale reactor. This model can now be used as a tool to design and predict the performance of an anerobic CSTR for combined blackwater and kitchen refuse treatment. The finally proposed sanitation concept for household wastewaters based on anaerobic technology has major advantages in terms of energy balance and CO2 emissions compared to the conventional aerobic system.
The mesophilic anaerobic digestion process has a relevant hygienization performance of 2 log reduction for the pathogen indicator E.coli. Additionally 2 log reduction can be reached in case of post-storage of 40 days at ambient temperature. Pre-pasteurization and Pre-acidification were studied, but no treatment is able to meet safely the standard of 1.000 CFU/g TR set by WHO (2006) and US EPA (Anonymous 1993). The Anaerobic Digestion Model No. 1 (ADM1) by IWA was implemented with the software Aquasim. The model was calibrated based on the experimental results. The key parameter were the disintegration and hydrolysis constant kdis and the inhibition constants for free ammonia and pH. The calibrated model was applied for the simulation of process limits and of a technical scale reactor. This model can now be used as a tool to design and predict the performance of an anerobic CSTR for combined blackwater and kitchen refuse treatment. The finally proposed sanitation concept for household wastewaters based on anaerobic technology has major advantages in terms of energy balance and CO2 emissions compared to the conventional aerobic system.
DDC Class
620: Ingenieurwissenschaften
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